Improvement in washing-machines



V. CORDER.

Improvement in Washing-Machines.

Patented July 16,1872.

PATENT OFFICE.

VINCENT CORDER, OF SHELBYVILLE, MISSOURI.

IMPROVEMENT IN WASHING-MACHINES.

Speoication forming part of Letters Patent No. 129,533, dated July i6,1872.

' Specification describing a certain Improvement in Washing-Machines,invented by VIN- CENT CORDER, residing at Shelbyville, in the county ofShelby and State of Missouri.

The nature of this invention consists in the combination, with one ormore beaters operated by suitable mechanism to cleanse the clothes in anordinary wash-tub by pounding them, of a platform which supports thewashtub, and is intermittingly rotated so as t0 subject successively allparts of the clothes to the action of the beaters.

Figure l is a plan view of a washing-machine embodying the principle ofthis invention. Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation thereof.

The same letters of reference are used in both figures in thedesignation of identical parts.

In the example illustrated in the annexed drawing, two beaters, A and B,are used, attached to the arms ofla walking-beam, C, which oscillates ona fulcrum, o, upon a standard of the frame-Work. The walking-beam isconnected by the rod D2 with the Wrist-pin of the crank D1 on thedriving-shaft D, which may be operated by a winch or other preferredmeans. The clothes and suds are placed in an ordinary wash-tub, E,beneath the beaters, the tub being supported upon a platform, F, whichis fastened to a short spindle, F1, resting in a step on the basetimbers of the framework. The platform is held steady by means ofanti-friction rollers F2 placed under it at several points near itsperiphery, and, being constructed with a serrated rim, f, receives anintermittent rotary motion by means of the pawl G, which is attached toan arm, H2, on the oscillating spindle H, another arm, H1, of which isconnected by the rod I with the crank D3 of the driving-shaft D.

The weight of the clothes and suds will ordinarily hold the wash-tubstationary upon the platform; but if found necessary to fasten it down,ordinary clamping devices may be provided for that purpose.

What is claimed as this invention, and desired to secure by LettersPatent, is-

The combination of the movable wash-tub, platform F f, pawl Gr, shaft HH1 H2, connecting-rod I, cranked driving-shaft D, rod D2,

walking-beam C, and pounders A B, substanf tially as and for thepurposes specified.

In testimony whereof I have signed myname to this specilication in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

VINCENT GORDER.

Witnesses:

JAMES W. UrToN, WILLIAM H. ROGERS.

